XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: david@block.net   
      
   On 30 Oct 2009 18:32:59 GMT, Blanche  wrote:   
      
   >It's not restraint of trade or even capitalism. It's property rights.   
   >More specifically, intellectual property rights.   
   >   
   >(oh my gawd, we had this argument 15 years ago, right here   
   >on the trek newsgroups....does no one ever learn?)   
   >   
   >Disney owns the rights to Snow White, et al. Sumner Redstone (in his   
   >persona of Viacom,CBS,whatever) owns the properties in the catalog   
   >known as "Star Trek".   
   >   
   >Let's take a simpler, closer to home example. I own a car. Do you have   
   >the right to buy my car from me?   
      
   Let's take a simpler, closer to home example.  You think of a joke and   
   tell it.  Do you have the right to sue me should I repeat it?   
      
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